An Unexpected Journey to Executive Director

Kathleen Fargnoli didn't anticipate that her love for singing would lead her to putting together a board or applying for 501(c)(3) status. But that's exactly what happened when she ended up as the volunteer executive director of the Palisades Community Chorus in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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A girl. A story. A song.

For the composing team of Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory, inspiration usually comes in the form of a story that grabs them and won’t let go. Such was the case with “Beneath the African Sky”—a lullaby for a lost refugee girl that has become a cry for justice and a song of hope for children’s choruses around the world.
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Bringing the Diversity of Choral Music to Young Professionals

A shared passion for singing led Ben Olinsky and his friends to create the 18th Street Singers, a Washington DC-based volunteer ensemble. Over the past nine years, the group has changed in size and membership, but the goal has remained the same: to make choral music more accessible to a new generation of audiences.
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We all know that there is something special about being a choral singer. In fact, Chorus America's research shows that singers are more likely to be good citizens that make positive contributions to their communities than people who don't sing in a chorus. However, there are other qualities that set chorus members apart in ways that are a bit more...unique. With some creativity and the help of our Facebook followers, we came up with 11 signs that you might be a choral singer.
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A singer discovers that while life can be hard, singing is heartening. And singing with other people, in particular. Excerpted from Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing With Others by Stacy Horn.
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Brett Stover grew up singing in choirs and has served on the boards of an array of music and arts groups in Cincinnati. Now he brings his business savvy and love of the performing arts to Chorus America's Board of Directors. "The more people who are singing, the better off we will all be," he says.
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The article "Should Choruses Memorize Their Music?" shares memorization techniques that choruses have found helpful. In this followup piece, Gary Holt, artistic director of the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus, expands on how he gets his singers "off book" quickly and efficiently.
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Conductor Donald McCullough guides us through the treacherous minefield of choral text pronunciation in Italian Latin with this multi-part series.
Episode Eight: When a Word Begins with a Vowel
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Conductor Donald McCullough guides us through the treacherous minefield of choral text pronunciation in Italian Latin with this multi-part series.
Episode Seven: Pronounce "Terra" and "Super"
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA

CALLING ALL VOCALISTS!East Bay a capella chamber chorus Sacred & Profane has openings for voices in all sections (SATB)! Auditions for our 2018-2019 season are available this Summer. S&P is in special need of male voices, women's spots are limited, but all are welcome to audition . If you are an experienced singer with a healthy voice & a great attitude, please join us for 2018-2019, our 41st Season. Auditions available by appointment.
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Boston, MA

Boston Choral Ensemble hosts and informal Summer Sing in Gordon Chapel at Old South Church in Copley Square.
Find out more on our website: https://www.bostonchoral.org/season-18-19/summer-sing-2018-faure-requiem/
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Falls Church, VA

Choralis invites area choristers to sing-through the Fauré Requiem and Rutter Requiem, with soloists Sheri Reed Crotty, soprano and Vincent Fung, baritone and keyboard accompaniment. The Sing will be led by Choralis Artistic Director Gretchen Kuhrmann.
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San Francisco Bay Area, CA

CALLING ALL VOCALISTS!
East Bay a capella chamber chorus Sacred & Profane has openings! Auditions for our 2018-2019 season are available this Summer for all voices.
Sacred & Profane has openings for voices in all sections (SATB). If you are an experienced singer with a healthy voice & a great attitude, please audition with us for 2018-2019, our 41st Season. Auditions available by appointment.
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New York, NY

DCINY welcomes back composers Francisco J. Núñez and Cristian Grases to the Carnegie Hall stage with a world premiere program featuring two brand new works created for youth voices featuring the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra and Singers. Florida Symphony Youth Orchestras directed by Hanrich Claassen performs works by Nancy Bloomer Deussen and Edvard Grieg.
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